#12: Talking Venture Capital with John Thompson and Mukesh Singh

Welcome to the second part of our conversation with John Thompson. On this videocast we talk with John Thompson about the state of Venture Capital and advice he has for startups in this market.

John Thompson started off his career at IBM back in the 70s as a salesman. He rose through the ranks to become General Manager of IBM Americas, but after 28 years at IBM in 1999 he was lured away to become CEO of Symantec building it into a true enterprise focused company. In 2014, John Stepped into the role of Chairman of the Board of Microsoft Corporation following Bill Gates' departure. John has been an active investor and in 2018 he became a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and has put together a portfolio of truly impressive companies. One of those companies is the cyber security company Confluera, which we are really excited to talk to him about today.

I am also excited to welcome Mukesh Singh, Vice President of Sales for Confluera who has worked at a long list of some of the industry’s most prominent companies prior to coming to Confluera.